Sincere Quotes

• Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Family

  Twitter post from Aug 01, 2015

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• Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Witty, Kings

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 4

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• The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

  Giotto di Bondone

  Friendship, Real Friends, Night

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• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Literature, Produce

  James Russell Lowell (1877). “Among My Books”

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• Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other and have the courage to accept each other as we are.

  Mother Teresa

  Accepting, Dealings

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.45, New World Library

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• Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

  Basil Rathbone

  Regret, Heart, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Keys, Doors, Trying

  "All and Everything: Views from the Real World". Book by George Gurdjieff, 1973.

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• The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.

  John Calvin

  Spiritual, Humble, Progress

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.23, Baker Books

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• Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.

  Tristan Bernard

  Men, Sincerity

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• The sign of sincere love is to forgive wrongs done to us. It was with such love that the Lord loved the world.

  Marcus Eremita

  Forgiveness, Love Is, Forgiving

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• Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Hypocrite, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.144, Library of America

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• I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

  Jules Renard

  Sincerity

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• Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dying, Repentance, Dropping

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.1151, Discovery House

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• Sincere love is not as a result of emotional surges - it’s a result of obedience to the Truth.

  Alistair Begg

  Love Is, Emotional, Obedience

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• Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

  Cesar Romero

  Fake People, Important, Hollywood

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• I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Learning, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.63, New Directions Publishing

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• Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Love, Loving Life, Relief

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.4, TAN Books

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• I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Opportunity, Years

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.163, Yale University Press

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• The most sincere compliment we can pay is attention.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Attention, Pay, Compliment

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• A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

  John F. Carlson

  Art, Expression, Feelings

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.

  Meher Baba

  Honest, Life Is, Sincerity

  Meher Baba (1977). “Meher Baba on Inner Life: The Mystical Side of Self-realization”

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• Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Wise, Fear, Men

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• There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People are beginning to value highly the fact that a river runs unimpeded for a distance... They are beginning to obtain deep satisfaction from the fact that a herd of elk may be observed in back country, on ancestral ranges, where the Indians once hunted them. They are beginning to seek the healing relaxation that is possible in wild country. In short, they want it.

  Olaus Murie

  Running, Country, Distance

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• Any sincere thought is irresistible.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Sincerity, Irresistible

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• People can see it when you're honest and sincere.

  Chamillionaire

  People, Honest

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